Co Dublin: A refurbished three-storey home on an acre of grounds is presented in walk-in condition, writes Bernice Harrison.

An acre of garden surrounds Adelaide House on Adelaide Road in Glenageary, Co Dublin so, despite it being a substantial, square, three-storey house, it's possible to drive up and down the road and not really notice it.

And at 464 sq m (5,000 sq ft) it certainly is large. The five-bedroom detached Victorian house is for auction through HOK Residential on March 11th with a guide of €3.5 million. With a heated swimming pool, grand reception rooms, and outbuildings with potential, this house is very much at the luxury end of the market and it has been completely and sensitively renovated by its current owners.

They bought in 1996 and admit that, as is common with old houses, the work they had to undertake was much more than they had originally bargained for.

Initial work revealed that the house needed to be completely stripped back and reroofed. Once that was done, it was refurbished, and then decorated in a restrained period-style so new owners will find it in walk-in condition. With so many windows and bay windows, this is a bright home with well-proportioned rooms.

The entrance is the least grand thing about Adelaide House - a relatively modest front door up a turned flight of granite steps - but it opens into a bright airy porch and from then through a tall coloured-glass doorway into a fine, wide hallway.

There are many original features dating back to the 1870s, including sash windows, elaborate cornicework and marble chimney pieces and the oak parquet in the hall is original. Off it are two fine reception rooms that interconnect, making for a lovely bright room that runs from the front of the house to the back with four windows including two deep bays.

Across the hall is a large formal diningroom, so this floor makes the house ideal for anyone who does a lot of entertaining.

Also on this level is a small room, now used as a home office which used to be the pantry, and a stylishly fitted-out guest cloakroom.

Upstairs there are four bedrooms, some with sea views, three large doubles and one really small single. There was a fifth bedroom up here but previous owners converted it into an en suite bathroom for the main bedroom. There is also a family bathroom on this level.

Down at garden level, the decorative style is more informal; for example, the chimney breast in the family room has been taken back to the granite stone and redbrick and, as well as this spacious living area, there is an eat-in kitchen, a utility room, a small shower room and the fifth bedroom. There is good access to the garden through attractively wide glazed doors and immediately outside there is a patio area.

Over to the left is the swimming pool in a south-facing part of the garden which has been retiled and generally refurbished.

There is still some work that could be done. The lofted double garage in the walled yard facing the driveway could, subject to planning permission, be converted into a spacious mews or other living accommodation.